January 23: Watford College, Watford.

February 12: Marquee Club, London, supporting Eddie and the Hot Rods. Jordan, who works in the Sex shop comes on stage and takes some of her clothes off. A picture of the event is later used on handbills to advertise the El Paradise Club gig. NME's journalist Neil Spencer reviews the gig.

February 14: Butler's Warf, London. This is a party held in artist Andrew Logan's studio. The Sex Pistols performance is filmed and a short part features in the "The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle".

February 19: Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, St Albans. A recording of the show is said to exist. Set list: Did You No Wrong / No Lip / Understanding / New York / Seventeen / Stepping Stone / Submission / No Fun / Whatcha Gonna Do About It? / Pretty Vacant / Substitute.

February 20: College of Higher Education, High Wycombe, supporting Screaming Lord Sutch. Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto, later in the Buzzcocks, are in the audience.

February 21: Welwyn Garden City. Rumoured it exists as a bootleg recording. Set list: Did You No Wrong / No Lip / Understanding / New York / Seventeen / Whatcha Gonna Do About It ? / Submission / Stepping Stone / Pretty Vacant / No Fun / Substitute.
After seeing the band for the second time, Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto go on to promote two Sex Pistols gigs in Manchester on June 4th and July 20th.

March 25: Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, St Albans.

March 30: 100 Club, London.

April 3: Nashville Rooms, London (recorded). Set list: Did You No Wrong / No Lip / Seventeen / New York / Whatcha Gonna Do About It? / Stepping Stone / Submission / Satellite / No Feelings / Pretty Vacant / No Fun / Substitute / Problems / Understanding / Did You No Wrong.
Gig is reviewed in the Melody Maker. The whole gig appears on a bootleg LP called "Sex Pistols" (SEX24). A bootleg CD called "Savage Young Pistols" (Raw Power RP76) also exists with the incomplete recording.

April 4: El Paradise Strip Club, London. Sounds magazine reviews the show. This show is probably NOT recorded. The tape doing the rounds is a fake made with the Nashville Rooms tape.

April 10: Review of the Nashville Rooms gig in the Melody Maker.

April 17: Review of 101'ers / Sex Pistols gig at the Nashville Rooms, Kensington in the NME. A picture of the band appears at the top of the page. The review is titled "Punks' Progress Report."

April 23 : Nashville Rooms, London (recorded): Did You No Wrong / No Lip / Seventeen / Stepping Stone / No Feelings / New York / No Fun / Submission / Substitute / Problems / Satellite / Pretty Vacant.
During Pretty Vacant, Vivienne Westwood and members of the band fight with some of the audience.

April 24: Sounds magazine includes a big article on the band written by Jonh Ingham.

April 29: Nashville Rooms, London.

May 5: Babalu Disco, London.

May 11: 100 Club, London.

May 15: Majestic Studios, London. The Sex Pistols record 3 tracks: Problems / No Feelings / Pretty Vacant produced by Chris Spedding. The three tracks feature on the 3 CD box set SEXBOX1 and "This Is Crap" CD (Virgin Records).

May 18: 100 Club, London.

May 19: Northallerton, Yorkshire. Pauline Murray attended the show (later in Penetration)

May 20: Penthouse, Scarborough.

May 21: Town Hall, Middlesbrough.

May 22: Bishop Grossetest College, Lincoln.

May 25: 100 Club, London.

May 30: Reading University, Reading. Gig was in the Art Department.

June 4: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester (recorded and filmed) Did You No Wrong / No Lip / Seventeen / Stepping Stone / New York / Whatcha Gonna Do About it? / Submission / Satellite / No Feelings / No Fun / Substitute / Pretty Vacant / Problems / No Fun.
This is an important event for the Manchester music scene. The audience includes TV presenter Tony Wilson (later head of Factory Records), Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook (Joy Division), Morrissey, Mark Smith (The Fall). A letter by Morrissey about the gig is later published in the NME.
Parts of the concert feature in the Granada TV documentary "I Swear I Was There", movies "The Filth & The Fury" and "24 Hour Party People", and in Mark Radcliffe's NWA TV documentary from 1996. The audio recording features on several bootlegs such as "No Fun" and "Agression Thru Repression".
Support band: Solstice. The Buzzcocks were on the bill, but didn't play this gig.

June 15: 100 Club, London.

June 17: Assembly Hall, London.

June 29 : 100 Club, London (recorded). Set list: Flowers Of Romance / Seventeen / No Lip / Stepping Stone / New York / Whatcha Gonna Do About It? / Submission / I Wanna Be Me / Satellite / No Feelings / No Fun / Substitute / Problems / Pretty Vacant / Did You No Wrong.
The gig is reviewed in the NME. Flowers Of Romance is the only track available on audio. It features on the official 3 CD box-set and the bootleg CD, "Agression Thru Repression".

July 3: Pier Pavilion, Hastings.

July 4: Black Swan, Sheffield. The Clash support (it is their first show, it is here that Keith Levine and John Lydon meet and discuss forming a band together).

July 6: 100 Club, London (recorded). Set list: I Wanna Be Me / No Lip / Seventeen / Stepping Stone / New York / Whatcha Gonna Do About It? / Submission / Satellite / No Fun / Substitute / Pretty Vacant / Problems / Did You No Wrong.
Support band: The Damned.

July 9: The Lyceum, London.

July 10: The Sundown, London.

July 13: From this day until the end of the month, the band spends several days recording demos in their Denmark Street rehearsal room with producer Dave Goodman. Tracks: Pretty Vacant / Anarchy In The UK / I Wanna Be Me / No Feelings / Seventeen / Satellite / Submission. The tracks are mixed at Decibel Studios.
In 1977, the demo tape (minus Anarchy In The UK and Pretty Vacant) surfaces on the bootleg LP "Spunk". The complete session later appears on another bootleg LP "No Future UK?". All the tracks are now available on official releases.

July 17: Melody Maker includes a review of the Lyceum concert from July 9.

July 20: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester. Support bands: Slaughter & the Dogs and the Buzzcocks. The gig is filmed and some parts feature in Mark Radcliffe's NWA and "I Swear I Was There" TV documentaries.

July 31: Sounds magazine reviews the July 20 gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. Sounds Playlist includes Jonh Ingham's choice: the three tracks recorded on May 15 by Chris Spedding.

August 10: 100 Club, London.

August 14: Barbarella's, Birmingham (recorded). Set list: Flowers Of Romance / I Wanna Be Me / Liar / Substitute / Seventeen / New York / Stepping Stone / No Fun / Satellite / No Feelings / Pretty Vacant / Problems / Anarchy In The UK.

August 18: Lodestar, Ribchester Road, near Blackburn.

August 19: Village Inn, Runton.

August 21: Boat Club, Nottingham.

August 29: Screen on the Green, London (recorded). Set list: Anarchy In The UK / I Wanna Be Me / Seventeen / New York / No Lip / Stepping Stone / Satellite / Submission / Liar / No Feelings / Substitute / Pretty Vacant / Problems / Did You No Wrong / No Fun. Available on the 3 CD box set SEXBOX1 (Virgin records) and several bootlegs.
Support band are the Clash and the Buzzcocks. NME reviews the gig.
Before Anarchy In The UK, the band plays a short and noisy track which is a variation of Flowers of Romance. (They play nearly the same track before performing Anarchy In The UK on So it Goes TV programme - transmitted Sept 4th - with Johnny Rotten shouting "Flowers! Romance! Baby! Woodstock….").

August 31: 100 Club, London (recorded). Set list: Anarchy In The UK / I Wanna Be Me / Seventeen / New York / No Lip / Stepping Stone / Satellite / Submission / Liar / No Feelings / Substitute / Flowers Of Romance / Pretty Vacant / Problems / No Fun.
Appears incomplete with the order of the songs changed around on a bootleg LP called "100 Club Sex Pistols Party" (SP3086).

August (exact date unknown): Malcolm McLaren meets Pierre Benain in Paris and visits Le Chalet du Lac to plan the September gigs in Paris.

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